Pickler



Oct. 1, 1929. s. R. RECTANUS ET AL PI CKLER Filed Nov. 30, 1925 5 Sheets-Sheet 1929- s. R. RECTANUS ET AL 1,729,684

PICKLER Filed Nov. 30, 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 1 R g/VI f/VTU/ PS ATTO/P/l/[KS Oct. 1, 1929. s. R. RECTANUS ET AL I 1,729,684

PICKLER Filed Nov. 30, 1923 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 A TTORNEYHS.

Pat nted a. 1. 1929 1,729,634

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SIDNEY R. RECTAN US AND KRISTIAN 'KRONBORG, OF MIDDLETOWN, 031 0, AISSIGN I TO THE AMERICAN ROLLING MILL COMPANY, OF MIDDLETOWN, OHIO, A COB- PORATION OF OHIO PICKLEB.

Application filed November 30, 1923. Serial No. 677,629.

Our invention relates to devices used in Figure 4 is a top plan view of the parts pickling sheet metal in packs, and more parshown in Figure 3. ticularly to means for operating the devices Figure 5 is a side elevation of a spider which control the movement of the packs to pickling machine showing the devices of our 5 the end that manual labor is eliminated to invention installed thereon. 55 the largest possible extent. We have not shown the mechanism for op- In the type of pickler wherein a large spicrating the pickler piston, nor the complete der is employed, on which bundles of sheets spider device. It will be understood that the are held by means of chains, and in which piston indicated at 1, carries a series of arms 0 the spider revolves and also dips, so"as to 2,1n the form of aspider, said arms serving 0 drop the sheets into floor vats of pickle lito suspend the chains 2 in Figure 5 which quor, it has always been the practice to move support bundles of sheets to be pickled. The the spider in its rotary motion by hand. piston has a movement up and down,as sup- The manner in which the spider dips the plied by power under control of'the operasheets is by means of a large piston on which tor, and also a movement upwardly to a 65 it is mounted, this piston being hydraulicalstop that brings the piston up higher than ly pushed up and permitted to move down. 1t moves in the dipping or up-and-down mo- Prior to revolving the spider, it has been the hon, this higher movement serving to lift practice to provide for a full length stroke the spider arms so that they will lift the bunof the piston which will lift the bundle cardles of sheets clear of the acid and washing 70 'riers clear of the floor tanks whereupon the tanks.

revolving motion is imparted by operators In our device we secure on the upper end pulling the spider around by main force, of the piston so as to move up and down and locating it so as to dip each bundle in with it, a large bull gear 3. In the cross the next floor tank, said tanks being located beams 4 of the building in which the ma 75 in a circle around the base of the machine. chine is housed, we place a frame 5 of suit- It is the object of our invention to provide able cross beams, which frame supports a for power means for rotating the spider journal bearing 6. This hearing or housing when it is in its position of highest elevation is located so that the piston will rise into the with the sheet bundles held away from the aperture 7 thereof when same isthrust up 80 tanks. Although we do not describe the opto its high position. In the form illustrated, eration of the piston on such pickling mathe details-of which are not important, the chines, it may be noted that the operator by upper end of the piston as illustrated at 8, his control, can apply power to the piston to is tapered OE, and the aperture 7 in the bearsend it up or permit it to move down, but ing 6, is also tapered off as indicated in Fig 85 during the dipping period, that the operator ure 2, so that the bearing serves to center throws in a trip which shuts off the power the piston and also to provide a definite stop when the piston has moved a certain disfor its upper movement, thereby locating its vtance, and opens up the power when it has upper point. 40 moved down to its low point. The power mechanism is shown as ener; 90

We accomplish our object by that certain gized by a motor 10, having a gear and construction and arrangement of parts to be worm reduction 11 between its shaft and hereinafter more specifically pointed out thetransverse driven shaft 12. The motor and claimed. and-the supports for the shaft 12 are mount- In the drawings: ed on the beams 4, above the machine. 95

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the revolv- A bracket 13 is provided having mounting ing mechanism forapicklerof the type noted. means for the shaft 12 which shaft is I Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same; equipped with a "beveled gear 14. The Figure 3 is a side elevation detail of the bracket also mounts the intermeshing bevwall guide device. 1 eled gear 15,and holds it against movement other than rotary movement. This gear 15 is mounted fixedly on a shaft 16, that extends also through a split bearing 17 and has a splined spur gear 18 at its lower end beneath the beams 4. This bearing 17 also serves as the upper abutment, and the gear 18 as a lower abutment for a spiral spring 19 mounted over the shaft and tending to hold the gear 18 downwardly. The upper end of the shaft 16 has a nut 20 which bears on the top of the gear 15, limiting the downward movement of the shaft 16.

The gear 18 meshes with the bull gear on the spider piston when the piston is lifted to its high position, and the spring arrangement of the shaft 16 takes up any shocks which might occur due to improper tooth engagement as the bull gear is elevated into mesh. The operator controls the motor by any desired reversing control switch which starts and stops it, so as to give the desired rotation to the spider when same is lifted up. 1

In order to give a suitable guide for stopping the rotation of the spider, and enabling its accurate location over the floor tanks, we provide for a wall guide as shown in Figures 3 and 4, A frame 21 is mounted on the wall, and mounts on its outer face a downwardly tapered channel piece 22, extending vertically.

Additional frame bars 23 oneach spider arm 2 (such arms being usually a pair of diverging T-bars) serve to mount a projecting bar 24 on the end of which is a roller 25.

When the spider is in its high position the roller clears the top of the tapered channel guide, and as the piston is lowered to bring the s ider to its operation position, the roller ri es into the wide end of the guide, and is guided by the tapered sides thereof to an exact position in the lower partof the guide. The guide is so placed that when any spider arm structure is located in the guide the carryin chains on the several arms will retain the bundles of sheets di-' rectly over the several floor tanks.

This guide device not only indicates to the operator the point. to which he must bring the spider in lifting and rotating the same, but does not come into effect until the bull gear is out of mesh with its driving pinion, and thus controls. the accuracy with which the spider sinks down to its operatin% or dipping position.

y the use of the two mechanisms in com- 7 bination we are enabled to do away with considerable manual labor, and to permit a much quicker alignment of the spider, and

also we positively maintain the alignment 1 during the dipping operation, in which the roller moves up and down in the narrower portions of the wall guide. We do not wish to confine our invention to the particular details of structure described above, and we do not wish to limit ourselves to the exact type of spider and piston structure which has been indicated in the drawings. We have advisedly omitted a showing of the chains, floor tanks, hydraulic cylinders, and the like, as these have been thereon, each adapted to carry a bundle ofarticles to be picked, so as to dip said bundles into a series of tanks arranged in a circular formation aboutithe piston as a center, a driving mechanism for the piston to revolve it, comprising a driven member on the piston, and a drivin member supported above the piston, in sue a position that only when the piston is atthe upper end of its movement, will said members come into-operative engagement.

a reciprocating and rotating piston with arms thereon, each adapted to. carrya bundle of articles to be pickled, so as to dip said bundles into a series of tanks arranged in a circular formation about the piston as a center, a drivcomprising a member on the piston, and a I 2. Ina plckling machine of the type having driving'member supported above the piston,

in such a position that when the piston is at the upper'end of its movement, said'members will enter into operative engagement, and a guide for said piston arranged to engage same, only when the piston is below the upper end of its movement. I

3. In a pickling machine of the type having a-reciprocating and rotating piston with arms thereon, each adapted to carry a bundle of articles to be pickled, so as to dip said bundles into a series of tanks arranged in a circular formation about the piston as a center, a driving mechanism for the piston to revolve it, comprising a inember on the piston, and a driving member supported above the piston, in such a position that when the piston is at the upper end of its movement, said members will mesh, said members comprising a bull gear on the piston, and a power drive gear to mesh therewith, said power driven gear resiliently mounted for the purpose described.

4. In a pickling machine of the type described, the combination with the, rotary and reciprocatory piston thereof, of spider arms thereon for retaining bundles of articles which are to be dipped into tanks arranged in a circle aboutsaid piston, said piston having centering means for its rota movement comprising an upwardly tapere guide, and means on the spider arms for engaging in said guide, said means retaining the piston in centered position, and guiding it thereto in its several rotary positions, but so positioned as to free the piston for rotation when at its upper limit of movement.

5.- In a pickling machine of the type described, the combination with the rotary and reciprocatory piston thereof, of spider arms I extending radially from the piston, PIOJBC- tions from said arms, and fixedly mounted means for engaging said projections on the spider arms, and comprising vrtically arranged and upwardly divergent guiding arms, said arms terminating at their upper ends below a point where the rojections on the spider arms will be, when the piston is at its upper limit of movement.

SIDNEY R. RECTANUS.

KRISTIAN KRONBORG. 

